Re: Help with NNTP on new "virtual ISP" (fwd)
From: Joni Boren (Joni@boren.com)
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:44:40 +0200
In article <an/Z5kKkXIkJ092yn@attglobal.net>, quilty@ibm.net wrote:
>Alan Clifford <alan@clifford.ac> wrote:
>| 1. The % is the escape character to generate special characters in the
>|URL. The % must be followed by the hex code of corresponding ASCII code=
of
>|the special character (exactly two digits). E.g. if your password
>|contains a @ you have to insert %40 at that place.
>
>Unfortunately, the URL encoding does not seem to work in the VSOUP
>userid field. Here's the report (modified only to hide my password
>from the list:
>
It does work with vsoup but the %40 looks like a enviroment variable
so you have to use an escape char I use an uparrow char in win+4dos
I don't know if it works in OS/2 but thats how I fixed the problem.
MvH
Joni Bor=E9n.